Alaa Aissi

UC Berkeley added a new job listing for the South & South West Asian and North African, or SSWANA, initiative coordinator position on Sunday.

During its Wednesday meeting, the ASUC Senate convened in Eshleman Hall to discuss several bills aimed at improving student life and class scheduling conflicts including grading options and the semester-out rule.

While ASUC elections season has been historically dominated by the two largest parties, CalSERVE and Student Action, this year’s candidate makeup has been slightly different.

Members of the bridges Multicultural Resource Center and four of the campus’s recruitment and retention centers, or RRCs, packed the ASUC Financial Committee meeting Monday to appeal its 2017-18 budget allocations for more funding.

The ASUC Senate passed nine resolutions at their weekly Wednesday meeting, including the Promoting Empowerment of Personnel Leadership & Excellence, or P.E.O.P.L.E., Act, and four referendums for the April election ballot.

The UC Office of the President released a statement Monday in response to the new travel restrictions signed into law by President Donald Trump’s executive order.

Campus sophomore Trevor Cox announced his independent candidacy Thursday for ASUC Senate in the upcoming ASUC general elections.

During its regular Wednesday meeting, the ASUC Senate deliberated at length with Associate Chancellor Nils Gilman regarding the Feb. 1 Yiannopoulos demonstration, and it discussed the modernization of the bylaws surrounding the academic affairs vice president grants.

The ASUC Senate unanimously passed a resolution at its meeting Wednesday to temporarily move the bridges Multicultural Resource Center and the Queer Alliance Resource Center to the fourth floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union and provide them priority reservations on the fifth floor.